PRIVACY advocates say a government proposal to keep all of Australia's internet and telephone information for two years would create a ''honey pot'' for hackers and criminals.
Victoria's Privacy Commissioner warned a joint parliamentary committee yesterday that civil rights and privacy would never have a chance if governments always put national security above all other rights.
The U.S. Secret Service is looking into claims that someone stole presidential nominee Mitt Romney's income tax returns and is threatening to release them if he doesn't pay up.
Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie told CNET today that the agency is investigating, but had no further comment.
On the 29th of November 2009 Malmö's hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen was raided by masked riot police.
Armed with batons and pepper spay they stormed the social center where the hackerspace housed. Among the policemen were people specializing in IT.
One of the people detained was a hacker named mackt. With a background in The Pirate Bay, for him the raid was yet another proof of society’s mistrust and lack of understanding of hacker culture.
When you combine one boat with 26 hackers and 100 days at sea, what do you get?
The voyagers hope it adds up to real-world solutions for the globe's most pressing issues -- from climate change to poverty.
Do you have hardware project that’s been simmering on the back burner because you can’t get access to a 3D printer? Come on down to the Disrupt Hackathon and use one of the MakerBots and Raspberry Pis we’ll have on site for anyone to use. Build toys, robots, Arduino cases, or whatever you want and enter the Disrupt Hackathon as an inaugural hardware hacker. We dare you.
The best hardware hack as chosen by the judges wins a brand new Replicator courtesy of MakerBot – a $2,000 value.
Several Swedish official websites were knocked offline on Monday, although no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
"I can confirm that the government site had problems today, but for security reasons, I cannot say more," Anna Dahlen, a government spokeswoman, told AFP adding that she did not know when the site would be back online.
Hacktivist group NullCew have claimed it has seized control of eight of Sony's servers due to lax security measures.
Through a message sent from the group's official Twitter account, the group claim that they have gained control of eight of Sony's servers, apparently related to the website Sonymobile.com. A short message sent with a dumped file on Pastebin read:
Windows 8 isn’t out yet, but hackers are already taking advantage of the buzz surrounding the name.
According to security firm McAfee, the company has come across a fake antivirus/antimalware tool called “Win 8 Security system” that claims to detect malware but in fact does nothing more than throw up fake warnings that it offers to “fix” in exchange for a fee.
Hackers are using remote maintenance tool NetWire, which can be used to monitor computers running Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris, as a trojan. Anti-virus software companies have responded by identifying the program as malware.
Two members of the hacker group, "Indishell", and its offshoots were arrested on Saturday after an extensive investigation by the Gautam Budh Nagar cyber crime cell. The accused, who did BTech in computer science, were charged with hacking into an e-commerce website that specializes in mobile recharge. Cops said four members of the gang with pan-India operations were at large.
